Russian President Vladimir Putin is apparently planning a new wave of attacks.Image: Pool Sputnik Kremlin / Mikhail Klimentyev
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Almost a year has passed since Russia the Ukraine attacked – and fierce fighting is still raging, especially in the east. The focus is on the strategically important cities of Bachmut and Wuhledar. Whoever holds them controls large parts of the Donbass.
Meanwhile, both Russia and Ukraine are preparing for spring offensives. Germany officially agreed to deliver 14 Leopard 2 main battle tanks on Wednesday. Together with Western allies, a total of around 90 leopards are to be made available to Ukraine. The German delivery should arrive in April.
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January 28th
12:56 p.m .: Russia is said to be planning a new offensive on the anniversary of the beginning of the war
According to Ukrainian sources, Russia is preparing a new offensive for the anniversary of the start of the war in Ukraine. It is “no secret” that the Russian army is preparing a new wave of attacks for February 24said the Secretary of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, Radio Svoboda.
Russia has mobilized hundreds of thousands of reservists and convicts to try to break through the Ukrainian lines and take over the entire Donbass, a vast coal and industrial area in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers fire an American self-propelled howitzer in the Kherson region.Image: AP / Libkos
5.01 a.m .: According to Zelenskyy, the situation in Donetsk is “extremely tense”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the situation in the hard-fought east of his country as persistently difficult. “The situation at front and especially in the Donetsk region – near Bakhmut and Wuhledar – remains extremely tense,” Zelenskyy said in his evening video address on Friday.
“The occupiers are not only storming our positions – they are also deliberately and systematically destroying towns and villages around them. With artillery, air force and rockets,” said Zelenskyj. The Russian army had previously reported new attacks on Wuhledar. Only recently, together with the notorious Wagner mercenary group, they conquered and occupied the city of Soledar, which is also in Donetsk, after extremely costly battles.
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January 27th
7:59 p.m .: Federal government according to Baerbock’s statement: Are not a party to the war
After a controversial statement by Foreign Minister Baerbock, the federal government has emphasized that Germany is not a party to the war in Ukraine. “NATO and Germany are not at war with Russia in this war of aggression against Ukraine,” said deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann. “We support Ukraine, but we are not a party to the war.”
On Tuesday at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Baerbock had called for the cohesion of the western allies with the following words: “We are fighting a war against Russia and not against each other.” The Russian state media used this statement as a central key phrase for war propaganda – as proof that Germany and the other EU countries are direct conflict parties in Ukraine and are fighting against Russia.
The Russian state media interpreted Baerbock’s statements as evidence of Germany’s entry into the war.Image: AP / Jean-Francois Badias
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